[rbmillerjr]

"Then how come Jews were called Christ killers for centuries? Who was promoting this? The butchers and bakers? The cooks and candle stick makers?"

The Catholic Church has never accepted the collective guilt of Jews.

But you seem to be liberal with your accusations against Christians and the Catholic Church in the collective sense.

[dennisw]

Perhaps the official party line in Rome (Vatican) was not to name Jews as Christ killers. On the lower local levels this was done all the time without reprimand and lead to pogroms and a holocausts. Why else do you think the Vatican II conclave did away with the Christ killer libel (collective guilt, persecution for all Jews) for good?